Meet The 10 Patents Yahoo Is Using To Sue Facebook — Yes, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) went there today—claiming in a lawsuit that it, not Facebook, is the real king of social networks. The company points to ten patents that it says cover features like messages, advertising and privacy settings.

Posterous is Joining the Flock at Twitter — Big news: Posterous has been acquired by Twitter! — The opportunities in front of Twitter are exciting, and we couldn't be happier about bringing our team's expertise to a product that reaches hundreds of millions of users around the globe.

The Damning Backstory Behind ‘Homeless Hotspots’ at SXSW — It sounds like something out of a darkly satirical science-fiction dystopia. But it's absolutely real — and a completely problematic treatment of a problem that otherwise probably wouldn't be mentioned in any of the panels at South by Southwest Interactive.

Organizers Defend “Homeless Hotspots” at SXSW — The talk of Austin is a jarring campaign in which homeless people actually become Wi-Fi hotspots. “The worry is that these people are suddenly just hardware,” admits its organizer. — Source: hardlynormal.posterous.com

Exclusive: Darpa Director Bolts Pentagon for Google — Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon's premiere research shop to take a job with Google. Dugan, whose controversial tenure at the agency lasted just under three years, was …

Intel Developing Web-Based TV Service — Intel Corp. is developing an Internet-based TV service that it hopes to sell to U.S. consumers, a strategic shift for the chip maker that makes it the latest technology company to look at a foray in the pay-TV business.

Kim Dotcom: Many Megaupload Users at the US Government — In the wake of the MegaUpload shutdown many of the site's users complained that their personal files had been lost due to collateral damage. — From work-related data to personal photos, the raid disabled access to hundreds of thousands …

Hollywood Studios Warm To Apple's iCloud Effort — Apple Inc. and Hollywood are proving how complicated it is to build alliances in the digital-media business. — Last week Apple said five major movie studios had agreed to allow consumers to buy their films on one Apple device …

Google+ updates mobile UI, still no iPad app — Google rolled out a new design for its Google+ mobile site Monday morning, which now looks more like the Google+ apps for Android and iOS. That's especially good news for Google+ iPad users, who have been waiting for a native app for the social network for some time.

As web booms, so does demand for data centers — Almost overnight, Pinterest is racking up billions of page views. Instagram is touching the 27-million-member mark. Zynga wants to build its own platform. Everywhere you look, you see the web economy booming and growing like never before.

Video! The search quality meeting, uncut (annotated) — It took eight video cameras and 16 microphones, but we've done something new and special to give you another inside look at how search works. Today we've published, for the first time, a video with the uncut discussion of a proposed algorithm change …

Rumored: PayPal to launch Square competitor — PayPal's plans to announce a solution for small businesses at an event this Thursday includes a mobile payment dongle that would compete against Square, Intuit (intu), Verifone and others, according to sources we've talked to who are familiar with PayPal's plans.